Which John Ford film stars Shirley Temple as Priscilla Williams?

John Ford’s film featuring Shirley Temple as Priscilla Williams is Wee Willie Winkie.

Released in 1937, the adventure drama follows Priscilla Williams, a young girl who travels with her widowed mother to a British military outpost on the frontier of colonial India. Sergeant Donald MacDuff gives Priscilla the nickname “Wee Willie Winkie,” and her innocence gradually affects the soldiers, her stern grandfather and even the rebel leader Khoda Khan.

The film was based on Rudyard Kipling’s 1888 story “Wee Willie Winkie,” which concerns the British presence in nineteenth-century India. Victor McLaglen plays MacDuff, while C. Aubrey Smith portrays Colonel Williams. Although the setting is India, much of the production was filmed in California, including Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth.

This title is easy to confuse with Temple’s other films. Heidi features her as Heidi Kramer, Bright Eyes as Shirley Blake and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as Rebecca Winstead. Wee Willie Winkie was also notable for avoiding the elaborate song-and-dance routines common in many of Temple’s Fox pictures.